Six images of a CT scan of a Braeburn apple showing sequential decay at different stages of shelf life. The decay is visible internally on the transparent rendering of the apple.

#CTpost #4 🩻🍎
Behold! An apple browning like you have never seen: from the inside! #µCT scans are used to follow the decay of fruit and other foods to improve preservation strategies! #CT allow to go even further...(1/2)

🧪 #science #food #imaging

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A short-snouted seahorse on knotted wrack (algae). The seahorse is brown and it's holding onto the wrack by its tail. Photo by Hans Hillewaert.

The rendering of the scanned seahorse tail, showing the armored plates surrounding the vertebrae, with four interlocking plate elements constituting a section of the tail shown in different colours. Below, some theoretical models of the tail for simulation purposes.

#CTpost #3 🩻🐎🐟
The tail of a seahorse has a square section ⏹️, it's prehensile and covered in armored plates. If you #µCT scan it (rendering in right image), you'll see the plates interlock around the vertebrae. But why a square? (1/2) 🧪 #science #fish

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µCT (microCT) scan of two chunks of aerated chocolate. Two panels above show the 3D and 2D appearance of the scan with smaller bubbles. Two panels below show 3D and 2D of the chocolate with larger bubbles.

#CTpost #2 🩻🍫
Have you ever seen a #µCT scan of bubbly chocolate? µCT scans are used to study the effect of aeration processes to insert the bubbles in the chocolate. Below you can see a chocolate scan at 18.2 µm of resolution and different bubble pattern! (1/2)

🧪 #science #food #CT #imaging #3D